Rogue Elephant by Simon Denyer

Author:Simon Denyer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-02-09T16:00:00+00:00

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How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?

The heart of India’s democracy, parliament, is barely beating

‘Whatever the Constitution may or may not provide, the welfare of the country will depend upon the way in which the country is administered. That will depend upon the men who administer it . . . There is a fissiparous tendency arising out of various elements in our life. We have communal differences, caste differences, language differences, provincial differences and so forth . . . Would to God that we shall have the wisdom and the strength to rise above them, and to serve the country which we have succeeded in liberating.’

Rajendra Prasad, President of India’s Constituent Assembly, in his

closing remarks to the Assembly, 26 November 1949. Prasad went on to serve as India’s first President, from 1950 to 1962.

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